‘Satanic Hispanics’ And 5 Other Unmissable Movies To See At SOHO Horror Film Festival
SOHO Horror Film Festival is this week, and we are excited that it will also be the UK Premiere of Dread’s own Satanic Hispanics! In addition to bringing our newest movie to an audience across the pond, the fest has an eclectic list of films that also warrant attention at this year’s event.
This year will see the Soho Horror Film Festival return in a landmark hybrid edition; with its 5th annual in-person festival in South London, and its 10th online country-wide home invasion. Spread over two consecutive weekends and boasting two unique film programs, this marks the Soho Horror Film Festival’s largest, most diverse, transgressive, and all-out bonkers lineup to date.
Bringing hungry horror hounds 30 fiendish features and over 50 short films from the very best in brand new independent genre cinema, as well as some special events you would be dead foolish to miss.
Slash/Back (UK Premiere)
Dir: Nyla Innuksuk. Starring: Tasiana Shirley, Chelsea Prusky, Nalajoss Ellsworth, Frankie Vincent Wolfe. Canada (2022) 86mins
Life as a teenage girl can be hell: Periods, boys, Snapchat follow count, alien invaders trying to colonize your town. But life is more hell for the Out-Of-This-World invaders that think they stand a chance against the punkish youth from the Top-Of-The-World.
In the sleepy Canadian hamlet of Pangnirtung, Nunavut: Maika and her ragtag group of friends want to go to the party of Thomassie, the coolest guy in the settlement. A wrench is thrown in their plan when Maika’s little sister Aju sneaks out to tag along, but an even bigger wrench is thrown when aliens set up camp in the hills and prepare to make Pang their new home. Unfortunately for the aliens, these teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives and are prepared to clap slash back to protect their home. The aliens soon realize that no one fucks with the girls from Pang.
The Jessica Cabin (International Premiere)
Dir: Daniel Montgomery. Starring: Chase Williamson, Daniel Montgomery, Riley Rose Critchlow. USA (2022) 72mins
Relationships can be tough when you’re queer, and swiping right is pretty tricky when you’re a bodiless spirit. So finding Mr. Right when you’re a gay ghost is next to impossible! Luck may have it then for spectral romantic Jackson when he falls for recently heartbroken Nicky… the only problem is, Nicky is very much alive. Well, they do say opposites attract. From the team that brought you the 2021 short POLTERGAYS, THE JESSICA CABIN is a hilarious and tender spookfest starring indie horror darling and Soho Horror Fest alumni Chase Williamson alongside an ensemble of characters you are sure soon to fall in love with.
Continuing the festival’s cornerstone of platforming LGBTQ+ voices within the horror genre, Daniel Montgomery’s heartbreak haunter The Jessica Cabin is a beautifully spectral take on existential ennui and the life, er, death-long want to be loved.
Shaky Shivers (International Premiere)
Dir: Sung Kang. Starring: Brooke Markham, VyVy Nguyen, Jimmy Bellinger. USA (2022) 82mins
There’s the old saying that the customer is always right, and we know from countless Karen-sploitation vids that challenging them can be a pain in the ass. But for outspoken Lucy, when she turns away a customer at the ice cream and shake shop she works at, the customer may always be fright… Fearing she has been cursed to turn into a werewolf, Lucy and her bestie head off into the woods armed with a pistol as big as their head and silver nail polish-painted bullets to wait for the full moon to rise in the night sky. But chaos has other plans.
Shaky Shivers takes a double scoop of buddy comedy, a squirt of cult creaminess, and a liberal sprinkling of 80s monster mash-up to create the ultimate goofball sundae of goodness.
Hypochondriac
Dir: Addison Heimann. Starring: Zach Villa, Devon Graye, Yumarie Morales. USA (2022) 93mins
Will, a young Hispanic gay potter, is one gregarious guy. His boss is terrible, but he’s got a great boyfriend and a great job. Unfortunately, behind that veneer is a dark past of violence and mental illness that he is desperate to keep hidden. When his bipolar mother comes out of the woodwork after ten years of silence, he begins exhibiting unexplainable symptoms and spirals into an obsession, determined to solve this mystery of his own.
A probing screwdriver straight to the nerve of familial and hereditary mental health, a moving exercise in catharsis, and a fearless proponent of getting your ass eaten. Hypochondriac is here to teach you 3 things:
1) Your trauma does not define you
2) Accept or stab your demons
3) Hot-fuck, no matter what.
Masking Threshold (UK Premiere)
Dir: Johannes Grenzfurthner. Starring: Ethan Haslam, Katharina Rose, Jason Scott Sadofsky. Austria (2021) 90mins
Frustrated by a constant buzzing in his ears, a paranoid data analyst documents his obsessive attempts to cure his debilitating tinnitus through a series of home experiments conducted in a makeshift lab. However, as his research becomes increasingly dark and macabre, a horrifying secret behind his maddening condition is revealed — with a potential cure more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
It always delights us when we can say: you have never seen anything like this before. Combining genuine Lovecraftian terror, a chamber piece play, and a scientific procedural into a harrowing spiral, Masking Threshold takes a macro lens to madness that will leave your ears ringing.
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Tickets for both the physical event and virtual event are on sale now! The Soho Horror Film Festival will run from 11-13th November at the Whirled Cinema in Brixton, London. The virtual Sohome Horror Film Festival will run from 17-20th November and will require internet access to take part. You can find more information on the festival at www.sohohorrorfest.com.
Let us know if you plan on checking out Satanic Hispanics at SOHO Horror Film Festival 2022! Let me know if you are attending the fest in person or virtually at @misssharai.
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